2027 in public domain

The works of Bertolt Brecht, of which he is the sole author, will enter the public domain in Europe in 2027.

When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of creators whose works enter the public domain in 2027. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.

Entering the public domain in countries with life + 70 years

With the exception of Belarus (Life + 50 years) and Spain (which has a copyright term of Life + 80 years for creators that died before 1987), a work enters the public domain in Europe 70 years after the creator's death, if it was published during the creator's lifetime. For previously unpublished material, those who publish it first will have the publication rights for 25 years. In addition several other countries in the world has a limit of 70 years. The list is sorted alphabetically and includes a notable work of the creator.

Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work
Pietro Badoglio  Italy 28 September 1871 1 November 1956 General La guerra d'Etiopia,
L'Italia nella seconda guerra mondiale
Julien Benda  France 26 December 1867 7 June 1956 Writer Bibliography
Bertold Brecht  Germany 10 February 1898 14 August 1956 Playwright Mother Courage and Her Children
Ezio Camussi [it]  Italy 16 January 1877 11 August 1956 Composer Compositions
Francisco de Aquino Correia  Brazil 2 April 1885 22 March 1956 Writer
Mohammed Hussein Heikal  Egypt 20 August 1888 8 December 1956 Novelist Zeinab
Irène Joliot-Curie  France 12 September 1897 17 March 1956 Chemist
Aino Kallas  Finland,
 Estonia 		2 August 1878 9 November 1956 Writer Sudenmorsian, The Pastor of Reigi,
Barbara von Tisenhusen
Paul Léautaud  France 18 January 1872 22 February 1956 Writer Works
Guido Leto  Italy 5 November 1895 1956 Politician Publications
Évariste Lévi-Provençal  France 4 January 1894 27 March 1956 Orientalist Histoire de l'Espagne musulmane
A. A. Milne  United Kingdom 18 January 1882 31 January 1956 Writer Winnie-the-Pooh
Giovanni Papini  Italy 9 January 1881 8 July 1956 Writer Publications
Alex Raymond  United States 2 October 1909 6 September 1956 Writer Flash Gordon
Jackson Pollock  United States 28 January 1912 11 August 1956 Painter
Jacques Sadoul  France 22 May 1881 18 November 1956 Politician Works
Michael Ventris  United Kingdom 12 July 1922 6 September 1956 Classics scholar, philologist Documents in Mycenaean Greek,
Introducing the Minoan Language

Countries with life + 60 years

In Bangladesh, India, and Venezuela a work enters the public domain 60 years after the creator's death.

Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work
Ralph Allen  Canada 25 August 1913 2 December 1966 Writer, journalist Peace River Country
Lauro Ayestarán  Uruguay 9 July 1913 22 July 1966 Musicologist La música en el Uruguay
André Breton  France 19 February 1896 28 September 1966 Writer, poet Surrealist Manifesto
Jan Brzechwa  Poland 15 August 1898 2 July 1966 Poet
Deems Taylor  United States 22 December 1885 3 July 1966 Composer, music critic
Walt Disney  United States 5 December 1901 15 December 1966 Filmmaker
C. S. Forester  United Kingdom 27 August 1899 2 April 1966 Writer Horatio Hornblower, The African Queen, The General
Lloyd Garrett  United States 2 July 1886 15 April 1966 Tenor, composer
Alberto Giacometti   Switzerland 10 October 1901 11 January 1966 Sculptor, painter The Palace at 4 a.m., L'Homme au doigt, Grande tête mince, L'Homme qui marche I, Large Standing Woman I, Monumental Head
César Batlle Pacheco  Uruguay 3 August 1885 6 January 1966 Politician, Journalist
Olhinto María Simoes  Uruguay 5 June 1901 9 October 1966 Poet, journalist La sombra de los plátanos
Cordwainer Smith  United States 11 July 1913 6 August 1966 Science fiction writer, professor, military officer Psychological Warfare, Norstrilia, Scanners Live in Vain, Alpha Ralpha Boulevard, A Planet Named Shayol
Evelyn Waugh  United Kingdom 28 October 1903 10 April 1966 Writer Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust
Mohamed Fawzi  Egypt 15 August 1918 20 October 1966 Singer, Musician Kassaman
Mohamed El Qasabgi  Egypt 1892 25 March 1966 Musician Raq El Habib
Badie' Khayri  Egypt 17 August 1893 1 February 1966 Playwright Hassan wa Murqus wa Cohen
Sayyid Qutb  Egypt 9 October 1906 29 August 1966 Writer Ma'alim fi al-Tariq, Fi Zilal al-Quran

Countries with life + 50 years

In most countries of Africa and Asia, as well as Belarus, Bolivia, New Zealand, Egypt and Uruguay, a work enters the public domain 50 years after the creator's death.

Names Country Birth Death Occupation Notable work
Benjamin Britten  United Kingdom 22 November 1913 4 December 1976 Composer List of compositions by Benjamin Britten
Agatha Christie  United Kingdom 15 September 1890 12 January 1976 Author The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Stuart Cloete  South Africa 23 July 1897 19 March 1976 Author Turning Wheels
Daniel F. Galouye  United States 11 February 1920 7 September 1976 SF Author Dark Universe
Munro Leaf  United States 4 December 1905 21 December 1976 Author The Story of Ferdinand
André Malraux  France 3 November 1901 23 November 1976 Author La Condition Humaine
Robert L. May  United States 27 July 1905 11 August 1976 Retailer Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Edgar Pangborn  United States 25 February 1909 1 February 1976 SF Author A Mirror for Observers
Thomas Burnett Swann  United States 12 October 1928 5 May 1976 SF Author, poet The Minotaur Trilogy
Guillermo Tolentino  Philippines 24 July 1890 12 July 1976 Sculptor Bonifacio Monument, UP Oblation

Countries with life + 80 years

Spain has a copyright term of life + 80 years for creators that died before 1987. In Colombia and Equatorial Guinea a work enters the public domain 80 years after the creator's death.

United States

See also: Public domain in the United States
Notable works entering the public domain in the United States in 2027 include Universal Pictures' Frankenstein and Dracula films

Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1931, films released in 1931, and other works published in 1931, will enter the public domain in 2027.[1] Sound recordings that were published in 1926 and unpublished works whose authors died in 1956 will also enter the public domain. The Disney animated short The Moose Hunt, featuring the first named appearance of Pluto, enters the public domain. Universal Pictures' Frankenstein and Dracula adaptations will be among the works to enter the public domain. In addition, the character Dick Tracy will enter the public domain.

Other significant films entering the public domain include Charlie Chaplin's City Lights, 1931 Best Picture Oscar-winner Cimarron, Gangster films Little Caesar and The Public Enemy, the Marx Brothers film Monkey Business, Laurel and Hardy's first feature film Pardon Us, Fritz Lang's serial killer drama M, Josef von Sternberg's Dishonored starring Marlene Dietrich, Michael Powell's directorial debut Two Crowded Hours, Otto Preminger's directorial debut The Great Love, F. W. Murnau's final film Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, G. W. Pabst's The Threepenny Opera, Mário Peixoto's Limite, Dave Fleischer's Bimbo's Initiation, the first Canadian sound film The Viking, the first Soviet sound film Road to Life, the first Japanese sound film The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, the first Bollywood-musical Alam Ara (now believed lost) and the first Chinese sound film Sing-Song Red Peony.

Artworks entering the public domain include Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence of Memory, Georgia O'Keeffe's painting Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue, Grant Wood's painting The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, Thomas Hart Benton's painting America Today, Paul Landowski's sculpture Christ the Redeemer, Pablo Picasso's sculpture Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse), August Sander's photograph Secretary at West German Radio, Cologne and M.C. Escher's early print Atrani, Coast of Amalfi.

Important literary works entering the public domain include Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth, Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, Lynn Riggs' play Green Grows the Lilacs, Erich Maria Remarque's novel The Road Back, Winston Churchill's final volume of The World Crisis, Georges Simenon's novel The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (containing the first introduction of inspector Inspector Jules Maigret) in its original French, Hergé's Tintin in the Congo in its original French black-and-white version, and Jean de Brunhoff's The Story of Babar in its original French.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Copyright and the Public Domain". Public Domain Information Project. Archived from the original on 2014-08-01.